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What if someone told you that you could save thousands of dollars on your next project before you even break ground? Would you believe such a grand statement? You should. What many contractors don't realize is the secret to running a profitable business is all wrapped up in the project schedule, one of the most visible and shared pieces of the planning process. By learning how to analyze the project schedule and being able to negotiate for the right amount of time to efficiently manage your work, you'll save money throughout the project — from beginning to end.
Starting with a reasonable and executable schedule is the first and most important step of keeping your job on track (see Scheduling Priorities on page C24).?Geared specifically toward electrical contractors working for a general contractor (where the general contractor is producing the overall project schedule), this article focuses on techniques to help you analyze the schedule for efficient workflow and negotiate with the general contractor up-front to make necessary adjustments to the baseline schedule.Keeping your project on schedule is another topic for another day.
What is the Gantt chart?
In the construction industry, the schedule format people are most familiar with is called the Gantt chart. This scientific management system focuses on breaking a process down into discrete tasks, defining a method for doing each task, tracking the cost and time to do the task, and then refining the method until the optimum cost/time ratio is achieved for each one. The Gantt chart simply takes these tasks and organizes them on a time line. This way, you can see an entire project time line organized in a logical way (see Logic: The Smarts of the Schedule on page C28).
Figure 1 (click here to see Fig. 1) details the basic elements of the Gantt chart. Understanding what these elements are and how they relate to each other will give you the ability to read the project schedule and gain insight on how the project will come together.
Take a good look at Fig. 1, and you'll see that beyond the graphical display of bars, there's a lot of logic and planning of resources that goes on "behind the scenes" in a project schedule. These details, which are the real meat behind scheduling, are critical.
The work breakdown structure
Creating a schedule starts with breaking a process down logically into specific tasks, otherwise known as the work breakdown structure (WBS). The WBS can best be visualized as a tree structure, similar to an organizational chart (click here to see Fig. 2).
The WBS begins with large breakdowns, such as site, building frame, building interior, and building skin. Next, the WBS moves on to more detail — such as Floor 1, Floor 2, Floor 3, etc. This process continues until there is a task for every discrete part of the process, such as "Rough Electrical, 1st Floor, Area A." Typically, the WBS is broken down by area to a level of 10,000 to 20,000 square feet and then by specific systems and trade disciplines.
Having a standardized WBS for your company, or for a specific type of project you build, will help make the process of moving from the estimate to the budget into schedule negotiations much easier. For each activity, you should make notes about what activities need to be completed before you can efficiently start on the task. Figure 3 (click here to see Fig. 3) shows a typical WBS for electrical, which can be modified for your particular business.
Ten steps for better schedule management
The following 10 steps will help you analyze the general contractor's project schedule, plan your work, and negotiate for better scheduling.
Scope letter: Add the following clause to your terms and conditions: "Price is based on having a reasonably leveled schedule." This clause will lay the groundwork for you to negotiate on the project schedule as described below.
Your tasks: Begin developing a worksheet to analyze the project schedule as provided by the general contractor. Pull all items referring to your work out of the schedule. Use the item numbers from the project schedule so you have a common point of reference when negotiating (click here to see Table 1).
Details: Make notes of duration, start, and finish dates as shown on the project schedule.
Accuracy: Make sure that at least every piece of your WBS is represented. Having a standardized WBS for your project will make doing this analysis even easier. Often, there are activities that will be left out, or there will be minor things you'll have to do as part of another piece of work — such as during a concrete pour. You want to make sure your list is thorough. Add items in where they will need to be inserted back into the project schedule. The example shown in the table is 33-A, B, C, and D, which breaks down the electrical rough stage of work into more detail.
Logic: Check to see that the logic is correct, and you'll be able to proceed with your work efficiently. Frequently, the logic won't be correct, activities won't be completed, or other activities are scheduled to start while you are still in the area. Having a standard WBS that details exactly what you need to have done to perform your work efficiently will make this part of the analysis much easier.
Man-hours: Add in the estimated man-hours for each task. The schedule will likely be in more detail and organized differently than your budget is. This is why it's important to understand the details behind the budget, so that the man-hours can be reorganized to roughly match the schedule tasks.
Resource loading: Lay out tasks with resources required over time. This can be done with pencil (make sure and use one with an eraser!), with Excel (click here to see Table 2), or — if you have the skills and the time — with scheduling software. Start by determining the average resources you'll need for each activity [hours ÷ duration ÷ 8 hours = average resources]. After that, fill in the time line as shown in Table 2.
Total resources: You need to determine the total resources required for all tasks. This will show you what your manpower requirements look like over the course of the job. This can be done on a more expanded spreadsheet similar to the one shown in Table 2.
Leveling opportunities: This is where the work really begins. Start looking for ways to level out your manpower. Some areas to look at include:
Can you load resources across the task differently?
Is there any way to start the task earlier?
Can you use float in activity to extend duration?
Can a successor task start prior to you finishing 100%?
Can you do pre-fabrication work in periods of low resource requirements?
Only request that the duration of the project be extended as a last resort.
The letter: Gather all of the notes you made as you were going through the steps above, and create a letter detailing your requests. Some ideas for the wording in your letter are as follows:
Intro: Our proposal was based on having a "reasonably leveled" schedule. This schedule currently requires excessive fluctuations in our manpower that will result in inefficiencies, thereby delaying completion of the project. Please review the following recommendation.
New task required: We need two days to run raceway on the metal deck before the concrete pour starts. We should be able to accomplish this task without extending the schedule. We request that you expand the decking/concrete pour tasks to reflect the individual floors so this task can be entered without affecting the completion date of the schedule.
Logic/detail: The electrical rough (33) is shown, starting with the framing. This will not allow for an efficient installation. We need to have an entire area — at least equal to half of a floor — completely framed before we start our rough. Please expand the schedule to reflect the additional detail. Overall duration for electrical rough is acceptable.
Reaping the rewards
Having the schedule leveled will result in numerous efficiencies and is something that should definitely not be ignored. Here are the benefits you'll see from a leveled project schedule:
Your core crew will stay on project with only minor fluctuations.
Training time for bringing new crew members up to speed will be minimized.
Efficiencies will be maintained by having a working foreman.
Premium-time work will be minimized.
The company won't have to recruit and then layoff additional manpower, which will save money in recruiting and unemployment costs.
Most importantly, the schedule is actually workable, and you'll be able to meet your milestones and finish the project on time — with the quality you care about and for the price you quoted.
If this isn't a process you normally go through on a regular basis, and if you have as many things on your plate as the average project manager, project engineer, and foreman, then you're probably thinking this would take way too long, won't work, isn't worth the time, etc. Keep one thought in mind to counter this mindset — you're in business to make money, and all decisions you make should come down to this.
Analyzing a schedule and working to proactively manage it up-front will take about 20 man-hours — or about $1,000.
Temporarily hiring for two months, and then laying off one employee will cost an additional $300 in state unemployment insurance taxes, depending on the state.
The hiring procedure, including processing and drug testing, will cost a minimum of $200.
Bringing just one new crew member up to speed on a new project basic tasks will cost a minimum of 4 hours — or about $200.
The cost of inefficiency on a crew, when adding additional people, far exceeds the basic costs outlined above.
Now, ask yourself these two questions:
Have you ever had to "find" work for someone because you had to man-up to meet the schedule and then found yourself with too many people?
How much is it worth to free up a crew/foreman a few days early?
As you can see, the benefits of correctly analyzing your project schedule and then negotiating for the right amount of time to efficiently manage your work are enormous. Putting the 10 steps to better schedule management strategies to work for you will give you the tools you need to take control of your projects, starting today.
Brown is the founder and president of D. Brown Management, a consulting and management firm for contractors located in Modi, Calif.
Sidebar: Scheduling Priorities
In the ever-changing construction industry, time is money. Here are a few points to consider when weighing the benefits of streamlining your schedule management strategy:
Electrical contractors have relatively low project overhead costs and make money through labor efficiency. This makes a leveled schedule and efficient workflow between trades and phases of work more important than duration.
General contractors have high project overhead costs and relatively fixed costs in terms of subcontractors and buyout. They stand to lose thousands of dollars every day the project is delayed.
This naturally puts electrical and general contractors at slight odds when it comes to schedule negotiation, so tread lightly when working to level the schedule in your favor.
Sidebar: Logic — The Smarts of the Schedule
Defining how the tasks of a particular project relate to each other determines the logic of the schedule. These relationships are known as either "logic" or "network logic." The most common logic is the "finish-to-start" or FS relationship. In the finish-to-start logic, when one activity is 100% complete, the next activity is triggered to begin. In addition to this logic, there are three other logical relationships to consider:
Start-to-start (SS): Activities starting at the same time.
Finish-to-finish (FF): Activities tied to finish at the same time.
Start-to-finish (SF): This logic is similar to the FS logic, except that the triggering action is one activity starting, which controls the finish date of another activity.


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STAMFORD -- For decades, the battle to save vestiges of Stamford's history from the forces of economic change and urban renewal has been mainly a losing one fought by just a few people.
People such as Wes Haynes, who heads a preservation nonprofit and recently worked with members of the South End community to save a yellow brick building on Atlantic Street that was once home to Frank "Mayor of the South End" Winski and the pharmacy he owned.
Both the man and his business, Winski's Drugs, were central characters in what was then a predominantly Polish community in that neighborhood.
The building was set to be demolished to widen and straighten the road. Haynes argued that the building serves as an important reminder of the neighborhood's rich cultural history, telling the story of those who took part in the city's industrial age.
Haynes and like-minded Stamford residents will soon get some real power to back up their lobbying, with the newly formed Historic Preservation Advisory Commission expected to begin giving recommendations to the city's Zoning Board. Mayor Michael Pavia is expected to begin appointing volunteers to the group soon.
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Harry Day, the Republican chairman of the Board of Representatives' land-use committee, was among the city officials who participated in discussions about what powers the commission should have.
"Sometimes I think we are so consumed with the present that we don't necessarily concentrate on the legacy we are creating," he said.
As a former land-use attorney who specialized in open space conservation, he argued that saving old buildings, like preserving open space, does not necessarily make developments financially less viable.
"Often times less is more," Day said. "Rather than tear down and destroy buildings of historic importance, if they can be incorporated into sound development, then that can add value."
In addition to serving as an advisory body to the planning and zoning boards, the new commission will be responsible for maintaining an up-to-date list of the city's historic properties as well as reviewing and submitting recommendations to the state for the creation of local historic districts.
Such districts, which are formed on the consent of two-thirds of the property owners, are overseen by commissions with far greater power to protect architecturally and historically significant buildings. To date, Stamford has created only one such district, that of Old Long Ridge Village located in North Stamford. In addition to his duties at the Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program, Millsap also serves as the chairman of the Old Long Ridge Historic District Commission.
Although preservationists are hoping to have far-reaching effects throughout Stamford, the real battleground for preservation is shaping up to be the South End, where redevelopment has been occurring at a fast clip and often at the expense of the community's history.
The South End was placed on the National Register for Historic Places in 1986. At the time, a total of 449 historic buildings were identified. By 2000, a survey performed by the Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program determined that the number had dropped to 278.
But despite the losses, the heart of the neighborhood has still managed to retain its small-town residential character and charm, according to Haynes, who is the executive director of the Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program. An avid walker who regularly strolls through the South End, Haynes called the neighborhood "one of the few truly pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods in Stamford."
The building at 745 Atlantic St. that he helped save was going to be torn down as part of a $3.5 million road realignment and widening plan at an intersection that is expected to see much heavier traffic as development proceeds in the South End. The three-story yellow brick building stands out on a jagged corner of Atlantic and Henry streets, next to the Metro Green apartment complex.
Built in 1913, it became home to Winski's Drugs, a pharmacy that operated between the late 1920s and early 1950s as a business catering to the South End's large Polish community. Its owner, Frank Winski, both lived and worked there, and his services included dispensing useful advice to his fellow countrymen, thus earning him the nickname, "Mayor of the South End."
"This is like a monument to Frank Winski," Haynes said.
Today, the building has a local bodega on the ground floor, with apartments on top. And while seemingly awkward, the building's off-center placement in fact serves as a natural traffic calming measure on what is expected to become a busy intersection over time, Haynes argued.
Although the battle over 745 Atlantic St. may be won, preservationists are bracing themselves for more contests to come. Haynes and Millsap recently pointed out a nearby cluster of homes built around the turn of the 20th century that they fear may be razed soon. Although it is early in the process, the city is said to be contemplating a road-widening plan to accommodate a $750 million headquarters for the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates on a former 14-acre boatyard site at the end of Dyke Lane.
To the casual observer, the houses, which are wrapped in aluminum siding, are not immediately recognizable as historic. Several are obscured by overgrown shrubbery.
But on closer inspection, the single-family houses contain distinctive architectural details, such as clipped roofs, that are reminiscent of the ornate Queen Anne style. Given the smaller scale and toned-down features, they are often dubbed as "Princess Anne" homes and were originally built for senior employees at the lock manufacturer Yale & Towne, Haynes said.
Whatever the eventual plans may be, the newly formed commission will guarantee that preservationists will at least have a say in any proposed demolition.
Like other city boards and commissions, the Historic Preservation Advisory Commission will consist of five full members and three alternates. Two of its members must be qualified professionals in the fields of architecture, historic architecture, history, architectural history or archaeology.
Millsap and Haynes are hoping to work with the city's two political parties on finding good candidates to fill the seats. The commission, they said, will only be as good as its members.
"The irony is that this was the great industrial zone in the golden age of Stamford," Millsap said. Now, for developers, he said, "It's the golden age once again."
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Innovation. It's brought up in articles, at conferences and in board meetings. But how can we innovate in companies that still don't have the flexibility or the right mind set?
Julie Cottineau, former VP of Brand for Virgin USA, brought the idea that we are all entrepreneurs to Columbia University's Brite Conference this morning. Innovation isn't just for new businesses so how do we bring it to the heart of an established company?
When you consider innovating your brand, what stops you from moving forward? Cottineau highlighted five main roadblocks that halt innovation in organisations:
- How will this get approved through my organisation?
- Our competition will probably beat us to it
- It seems interesting, but maybe need more data. This leads to testing, which can lead to the idea losing steam.
- This could be risky. Can we afford to fail?
- Why hasn't it been done before? What's the catch?
How do we overcome these roadblocks?
Cottineau gave us five strategies to consider with the understanding that we've heard it all before. What we need to do though, is learn from it and act on it.
1) Passion
Great brands started with frustrated people. Dyson, Tom's Shoes, Ben and Jerry's all wanted to make something better as they saw a need there. They saw it in themselves.
Cottineau used a Richard Branson quote to emphasise the feeling behind that:
Whenever I see people getting a bad idea, I want to step in and do something about it. I look for opportunities where we can offer something better fresher and more valuable.
"If you are working on something," continued Cottineau, "you better passionate about it. It has to be something that keeps you up at night."
2) Take a fresh look
Lateral thinking is important when you're looking at innovating at the brand level. You may think what if Delta was to twist with Starbucks? They could turn around the seats so people could chat.
That's not necessarily possible for an airline to physically do but last week KLM introduced social seating. This allows you to find out if someone in your Facebook or Twitter network is on the plane. You can then choose seats to sit with someone you are interested in talking to.
3) Be useful
Companies need to think more about being useful and not about being innovative. If you do that, you put your consumer into the centre. You have to think - how do I help these people?
Examples like Pinterest, Zappos, Airbnb, YCombinator, Apple, Nike, and Starbucks where brought up. You need to look at how you impact your consumers along the whole journey. It's not just about the moment of purchase anymore but extends to before and after purchase now.
4) Live in Beta
Google gives employees 20% time for personal passion projects. AdSense is a product that came from it and it's now a two billion dollar product for them.
You may have to look to sides of the project in order to innovate. Or you may have to change your model as you go in order to salvage what could potentially kill your product.Virgin did this with Freefest. The economy was on a downturn and they were afraid no one would come. So they changed the model. Instead of charging for tickets, Virgin gave the tickets away if someone donated or gave their time to a charity. They got sponsors and the event was a success. This wasn't something they thought of a year out. It was something they did on the fly.
5) Fail smarter
It's scary to consider but only 1 in 10 companies you see today will exist in 3 years. Virgin cola, for example, was a tremendous failure.
It sounded good on paper but it failed. The learnings? Virgin is about experience like airlines and health clubs. "There are only 6 experiences with a cola and," Cottineau joked, "that includes burping."
How do you starting thinking like an entrepreneur?
Cottineau left the Brite Conference audience with a great exercise to help companies think about their brands in new ways. A way to brainstorm about the direction of your Brand in three easy steps.
First choose an inspirational brand that you are passionate about, focusing on one that is a great problem solver. Then identify a pain point you want to solve. Think big. What is the fundamental thing that will make a difference in your company?
Finally, twist the two for inspiration and actionable ideas. To do this, you'll need to imagine what would happen if your inspirational brand was in charge of solving your problem for you?
It's this kind of thinking that could lead to new ideas for brands. In the right conditions, this could move companies forward. Of course, those five initial roadblocks aren't going away anytime soon.
But as more brands have c-level change and open themselves to entrepreneurial ideas, we may see it's those brands that will be able to successfully navigate our current volatile landscape.
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Thanks Heather for this great write up. I really enjoyed meeting everyone at the BRITE conference and I'm happy to add more perspective to these strategies if any of your readers have any questions.
Julie Cottineau, Founder BrandTwist, former VP Virgin


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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as September 11th or 9/11 (pronounced as "nine eleven"), were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States that occurred September 11, 2001.
- [T]he twenty-first century truly began on September 11, 2001, ten years later, when planes slammed into the World Trade Center.
- Should terrorists launch new attacks, we believe their preferred targets will be U.S. Government facilities and national symbols, financial and transportation infrastructure nodes, or public gathering places. Civil aviation remains a particularly attractive target in light of the fear and publicity that the downing on an airline would evoke.
- National Intelligence Estimate (1995), contained in the 9/11 Commission Report (2004) p. 54.
- The world that was behind me when I went into school that morning was gone forever, and the new one waiting for me that afternoon was wildly different.
- Downtown Manhattan that day looked like exactly what it was, a war zone.
- A layer of ash covered the streets and a cacophony of alarms refused to cease. I remember the 60 block walk home up the middle of 6th Avenue which was completely void of all traffic, except for sporadic rescue vehicles from neighboring counties with unfamiliar demarcations rushing downtown, their sirens piercing the eerie silence. Crowds of people gathered outside any establishment with a television, standing like statues in anesthetized silence.
- From all points in Manhattan one could look to the South and see a huge plume of smoke hovering over the rubble where two towers once stood, two majestic American symbols representing both commerce in the free world and Democracy. Buildings that transcended width and height, real estate value and a prestigious office address. These towers spelled America, they spelled your name and mine.
- The air was exceptionally thick with the smell of pungent smoke from smoldering rubble.
- ... there was no discerning morning from afternoon, day from night. Just knowing that I was there to serve, I was there to show my gratitude, I was there to say yes, I believe.
- I'll never forget the acrid smell, the fearful and numbed look on people's faces, the sounds and the sour taste in my mouth."
- That morning terrorists gave their lives to cause those attacks. So here we stand, six years later, prepared to give ours to prevent further ones.
- Gregory Barbaccia Combined Joint Task Force 82 9/11 Memorial Ceremony (September 11, 2007)
- Quotations of statements made during the events of September 11th, 2001.
- We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be okay. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move, everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.
- Mohamed Atta, American Airlines Flight 11 hijacker pilot, heard on a radio transmission, while intending to send a message to the passengers, at 08:24, as quoted in Guardian Unlimited (17 October 2001)
- Nobody move please, we are going back to the airport, don't try to make any stupid moves.
- Mohamed Atta, at 08:33, as quoted in Guardian Unlimited (17 October 2001).
- Hello? We're looking in... We're overlooking the Financial Center. Three of us. Two broken windows. OH GOD! OH! —
- We may have a hijack. We have some problems over here right now.
- Air traffic controller, at 08:53, as quoted in Guardian Unlimited (17 October 2001).
- Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent... we are all over the place. … I see water. I see buildings. We are flying low. We are flying very, very low. We are flying way too low. … Oh my God, we are way too low... Oh my God, we're —
- Flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, at the end of her phone call to a supervisor describing the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11[1]
- What do I tell the pilots to do?
- CNN commentator Barbara Olson, passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, cell phone call to her husband, Solicitor General Theodore Olson. [2]
- Holy shit, man. That's the other building. That's terrorists! That's terrorists, bro! That's fucking terrorists!
- Stephen Vigilante, (11 September 2001), moments after the second tower was struck.
- Are you guys ready? Let's roll.
- Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, last reported words from his cell phone call to Lisa D. Jefferson, a GTC telephone switchboard operator. [3]
- They're coming.
- [Ziad] Jarrah's objective was to crash his airliner into symbols of the American Republic, the Capitol or the White House. He was defeated by the alerted, unarmed passengers of United 93.
- I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say, today we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.
- Benjamin Netanyahu, Statement on the September 11 attacks (20 September 2001), as quoted at the official site of Israeli embassy
- I thought the brain could rule over the legs. And I thought the brain was white and the legs were yellow or brown. And I thought I could rule with my brain—and even if I cut my legs off—I would find cheap legs in other parts of the world. But now I am a mutilated body. I lost my legs in Korea. I lost my arms in Vietnam. I lost my head in Kuwait. I lost my torso in the World Trade Center.
- Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana, AmazonCrossing, Seattle, September, 2011
- Barney Rosset, The Evergreen Review, 50th Anniversary edition, New York, 2010. Michael Somoroff, documentary video, United States of Banana, New York, September 2011.[4].
- Unburied bodies have unsettled matters—and they stink. The bodies of Polyneices and of Polonius and of Zarathustra's tightrope walker and of the workers in the World Trade Centers lay stinking in the starry night. They still want to be paid, and they need retribution, vengeance, grudges, memories, teeth, the grinding of teeth, and muttering of curses. We need a legion of gravediggers, architects, and engineers with good faith to build cemeteries for these bodies in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Tony Blair and George Bush declared they would create a new world order out of the ruins of the World Trade Center. But they created chaos and anarchy because instead of burying the bodies they hold grudges of the ghost of vengeance.
- Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana, AmazonCrossing, Seattle, September 2011.
- After the World Trade Center was bombed by Islamic fundamentalists in 1993, the country quickly chalked it up to a zany one-time attack and five minutes later decided we were all safe again. We weren't. We aren't now. They will strike again. Perhaps they will wait another eight years. But perhaps not. The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate.
- Ann Coulter, "Future Widows of America: Write your congressman," in Jewish World Review, September 2001.
- Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary Rod Paige and the Lt. Governor will take the podium and discuss education. I do want to thank the folks here at Booker Elementary School for their hospitality.
Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the Vice President, to the Governor of New York, to the Director of the FBI, and have ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act.
Terrorism against our nation will not stand.
And now if you would join me in a moment of silence. May God bless the victims, their families, and America. Thank you very much.
- George W. Bush, Remarks after plane crashes (11 September 2001).
- I want to reassure the American people that the full resources of the federal government are working to assist local authorities to save lives and to help the victims of these attacks. Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts.
I've been in regular contact with the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, the national security team and my Cabinet. We have taken all appropriate security precautions to protect the American people. Our military at home and around the world is on high alert status, and we have taken the necessary security precautions to continue the functions of your government.
We have been in touch with the leaders of Congress and with world leaders to assure them that we will do whatever is necessary to protect America and Americans.
I ask the American people to join me in saying a thanks for all the folks who have been fighting hard to rescue our fellow citizens and to join me in saying a prayer for the victims and their families.
- Remarks Upon Arrival at Barksdale Air Force Base (11 September 2001).
- I can hear you! I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!
- George W. Bush, impromptu speech given at Ground Zero at WTC site (September 14, 2001).
- This enemy attacked not just our people, but all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient, we will be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination.… we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.
- George W. Bush, remarks following a meeting with the national security team (12 September 2001), in Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, 2001.
- What we have here is a war--the war of matter and spirit... The war of banks and religion. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
- Giannina Braschi, remarks published in "United States of Banana" and discussed on New York 1 TV. NY1 TV, New York 2011 [5]. The Economist Book of Business Quotations, editor Bill Ridgers, John Wiley, New York, July 2012.
- September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
- I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
- Osama bin Laden statement in al-Quds al-Arabi, as quoted in "Bin Laden: I Didn't Do It" CBS News (12 September 2001); also at Positive Atheism's "Big List of Scary Quotes"
- We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
- We strongly condemn the events that happened in the United States at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. We share the grief of all those who have lost their nearest and dearest in these incidents. All those responsible must be brought to justice. We want them to be brought to justice, and we want America to be patient and careful in their actions.
- Embassy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Islamabad. (12 September 2001)
- As to those in the World Trade Center… True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent?… They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire—the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved—and they did so both willingly and knowingly.… If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.
- Ward Churchill in Pockets of Resistance no. 27 (September 2001) "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens".
- Isn't the use by America and some Western governments of their fire against others in the world including, or in the forefront of whom are the Arabs and the Muslims, one of the most important reasons of the lack of stability in the world at the present time? Isn't the evil inflicted on America in the act of September 11, 2001, and nothing else, a result of this and other acts? This is the main question and this is what the American administration along with of the Western governments or the Western public opinion should answer in the first place with serenity and responsibility, without emotional reaction and without the use of the same old methods that America used against the world.
- Saddam Hussein, Open letter to the American peoples (15 September 2001).
- It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her. … For those thousands in the south tower, the second plane meant the end of everything. For us, its glint was the worldflash of a coming future.
Terrorism is political communication by other means. The message of September 11 ran as follows: America, it is time you learned how implacably you are hated. United Airlines Flight 175 was an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile aimed at her innocence. That innocence, it was here being claimed, was a luxurious and anachronistic delusion.
- Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" — something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities. During this week of incredulous misery, I have been trying to apply such a consciousness, and such a sensibility. Thinking of the victims, the perpetrators, and the near future, I felt species grief, then species shame, then species fear.
- When the World Trade towers fell on September 11, 2001, there was one refrain I heard over and over again, a common response that was both automatic and indicting: "It looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie." More specifically, the explosions and citywide carnage resembled Armageddon, the Bay-directed action vehicle that had come out four summers prior and contained scenes of epic metropolitan mayhem that were still something of a cinematic novelty at the time. We pray that nothing on the scale of 9/11 will ever happen again, but if something actually did, we'd now have a sickening number of summer movies to compare it to. This weekend's Man of Steel is only the latest film this year to exploit familiar 9/11 imagery in ways that are far more extreme and blatant than anything we've seen on the big screen before, as though Hollywood feels the need to out-9/11 itself. It's lazy, it's cheap, it's deadening, and it needs to stop.
- Such knowing, referential obliteration probably began with the apocalyptic terror of 2005's War of the Worlds, in which Steven Spielberg at least had the decency to use the entire movie as an allegory for our feelings of post-9/11 dread and hopelessness. Since then, though, the weighty underpinnings to those scenes in War of the Worlds have fallen away as city-wrecking summer movies like Transformers: Dark of the Moon seek only to up the ante from the destruction featured in whichever summer spectacular came out the year before. In last year's The Avengers, the splintering of New York City was cause for lighthearted super-banter. Only one bittersweet nod to our post-9/11 outlook remains: Action heroes used to prevent disasters, but now, they can only avenge them.
- Kyle Buchanan, "Is It Possible to Make a Hollywood Blockbuster Without Evoking 9/11?", Vulture, (2013/06).
- They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.
- George W. Bush, address to joint session of Congress (20 September 2001).
- Now, the American people have got to go about their business. We cannot let the terrorists achieve the objective of frightening our nation to the point where we don't conduct business, where people don't shop.
- George W. Bush, press conference (11 October 2001), in Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, 2001.
- How do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is vitriolic hatred for America? I'll tell you how I respond: I'm amazed. I'm amazed that there is such misunderstanding of what our country is about, that people would hate us. I am like most Americans. I just can't believe it, because I know how good we are, and we've got to do a better job of making our case. We've got to do a better job of explaining to the people in the Middle East, for example, that we don't fight a war against Islam or Muslims. We don't hold any religion accountable. We're fighting evil.
- George W. Bush, press conference (11 October 2001), in Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, 2001.
- I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!
- Vladimir V. Putin, inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall (15 November 2001).
- We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further — we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all — in pain as in prosperity — has gripped young and old.
- If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
- Osama bin Laden on the September 11, 2001 attacks, in CNN broadcast of an interview that Al-Jazeera conducted in October 2001 (31 January 2002).
- Not only were the media bombarding us all the time with talk about the terrorist threat; this threat was also obviously libidinally invested — just remember the series of movies from Escape from New York to Independence Day. That is the rationale of the often-mounted association of the attacks with Hollywood disaster movies: the unthinkable which happened was the object of fantasy, so that, in a way, America got what it fantasized about, and that was the biggest surprise.
- Slavoj Žižek (2002). Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates. London: Verso, p. 15. ISBN 1859844219.
- September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East. … The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists — haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.
- My last vestige of "hands-off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the "National Day of Prayer", when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonation and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.
- Richard Dawkins, "Time to Stand Up". A Devil's Chaplain. 2003. ISBN 9780297829737.
- Like all "acts of terrorism" (easily and unsubjectively defined as organised violence against civilians), September 11 was an attack on morality: we felt a general deficit. Who, on September 10, was expecting by Christmastime to be reading unscandalised editorials in the Herald Tribune about the pros and cons of using torture on captured "enemy combatants"? Who expected Britain to renounce the doctrine of nuclear no-first-use? Terrorism undermines morality. Then, too, it undermines reason. … No, you wouldn't expect such a massive world-historical jolt, which will reverberate for centuries, to be effortlessly absorbed. But the suspicion remains that America is not behaving rationally — that America is behaving like someone still in shock.
- What happened on September 11? On September 11 — what happened? Picture this: two upended matchboxes, knocked over by the sheer force of paper-darts.
Only it was much, much worse than that. In fact, words alone cannot adduce how much worse it was than that. September 11 was an attack on words: we felt a general deficit. And with words destroyed, we had to make do, we had to bolster truth with colons and repetition: not only repetition: but repetition and: colons. This is what we adduce.
- Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn't analyze at first and didn't fully grasp … until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.
- This 'zeal for secrecy' I am talking about – and I have barely touched the surface – adds up to a victory for the terrorists. When they plunged those hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago this morning, they were out to hijack our Gross National Psychology. If they could fill our psyche with fear – as if the imagination of each one of us were Afghanistan and they were the Taliban – they could deprive us of the trust and confidence required for a free society to work. They could prevent us from ever again believing in a safe, decent or just world and from working to bring it about. By pillaging and plundering our peace of mind they could panic us into abandoning those unique freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of the press – that constitute the ability of democracy to self-correct and turn the ship of state before it hits the iceberg.
- Bill Moyers, Speech to the Society of Professional Journalists, September 11, 2004. [6]
- The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.
- Sam Harris, The End of Faith (2004), p. 67
- When those two towers fell, I felt a dentist had pulled out my two front teeth. I could not laugh anymore. And I have the smile of a smiling damned villain. But I also felt the hole in my mouth became a garage, and entering that garage were terrorists in trucks full of explosives and French diplomats—to fuck us more with other nations—to run over our dead bodies.
- Giannina Braschi in "United States of Banana" (AmazonCrossing 2011).
- Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.
- Osama bin Laden, as quoted in Messages to the World : The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) by Bruce Lawrence ISBN 1844670457
- Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America, land of the sodomite damned... The deadly events of 9/11 were direct outpourings of divine retribution, the immediate visitation of God's wrath and vengeance and punishment for America's horrendous sodomite sins.
- Fred Phelps, leader of Westboro Baptist Church, in "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed" - WBC Video News. Westboro Baptist Church (8 September 2006).
The death of Osama bin Laden[edit]
- Remarks of Barack Obama on the death of Osama bin Laden - Whitehouse transcript and video (1 May 2011)
- Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
- On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda — an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
- Last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.
Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
- For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda's leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda.
Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. There's no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must — and we will — remain vigilant at home and abroad.
As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not — and never will be — at war with Islam. I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
- The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly 10 years of service, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war. These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one, or look into the eyes of a service member who's been gravely wounded.
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda's terror: Justice has been done.
10th Anniversary[edit]
- Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then, we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.
- Michael Bloomberg, . Obama: America does not give in to fear. msnbc.com (September 11, 2011). Retrieved on September 11, 2011.
- Never before in our history has America asked so much over such a sustained period of an all-volunteer force. So I can say without fear of contradiction or being accused of exaggeration, the 9/11 generation ranks among the greatest our nation has ever produced, and it was born — it was born — it was born right here on 9/11.
- George W. Bush, . Obama: America does not give in to fear. msnbc.com (September 11, 2011). Retrieved on September 11, 2011.
- These past 10 years underscore the bonds between all Americans. We have not succumbed to suspicion and mistrust. It will be said of us that we kept that faith; that we took a painful blow, and emerged stronger.
- Barack Obama, . Nation looks ahead with hope after remembering 9/11 victims. cnn.com (September 11, 2011). Retrieved on September 11, 2011.
- America has always been very visible... I'm still proud to be from the country that I'm from, I still love the country that I'm from. I'm still able to achieve great things here and I'm doing my best to do so. But, it's amazing. When we came together like that, when we put our differences aside and we declared war on the people that harmed us... When we got together to help the people and the families of the people that died on 9/11 it made me feel amazing. It made me feel patriotic, it made me feel strong, it made me love this country in a way that in all my years I'd never really loved it. You know? Because that's the America we all dream of. That's the America that we all want, this America that's strong, and powerful and strikes back when necessary. The sleeping giant that we were taught about in our history books, ready to just to just be the super-power that we need to be and having the best army in the world and wow. Wow. A congress and a president that'll work together, and what have we become? Eleven years later? Eleven years later we don't have those answers that we wanted from 9/11. We have most. We know who did it, we know why they did it. We know how they did it. There's conspiracy theories abound; the proof is pretty much there. But, we've done so much to gut ourselves. We've done so much to gut our freedoms... At the end of the day, the America that we could have been had we stayed on that path, the America that we could have been had we stayed together, had we worked hard to rebuild, to be better to be stronger, is a dream again. You know, and that's really sad... We're more divided than we've ever been, and that? That breaks my heart... You? If you're under the age of eighteen, you've never lived in an America like ours. You know? You've lived in a good country, don't get me wrong. You've lived in a fantastic country, one that's ailing right now, there's no arguing that. But, so close and yet? So far... I remember that American dream, and I just wonder. I wonder if America can ever be the same again. We'll see.
- Steven Williams, "Story Time With Boogie: September 11th, 2001" (September 2012), YouTube
External links[edit]
- 9-11Commission.gov - 'National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States' (Official Website – archived)
- 911DigitalArchive.org - 'September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11th, 2001' (in partnership with the Library of Congress)
- 911 Investigations - Repository of documents relating to the 9/11 attacks and War on Terrorism
- BBC News - 'America's Day of Terror'
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding 9/11
- Memory.loc.gov - 'September 11, 2001, Documentary Project', The Library of Congress
- TheMemoryHole.org - New York Fire Department audio tapes from September 11 2001.
- WCBS-TV September 11th Remembered
- NY1.com - New York One News Television, 'World Trade Center Special Section' (June 7, 2005)
- September 11, 2001 Newspaper Articles Archive - More than 15,000 free newspaper articles related to the 9/11/2001 attacks.
- Washington Post - 'Terrorists Unleash Assault on US'
- Open Directory - September 11, 2001
- "Attacks remembered: In quotes" at BBC News (11 September 2002)
- Plane Hits Pentagon
- 9/11 Timeline - Chronology of events according to 9/11 Commission Report presented in 4-way split screen.
- CNN.com - Video archive, including the first and second planes.
- Inside 9/11 - National Geographic
- . Defense Department Releases Two Videos of Flight 77 Crashing Into Pentagon. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.
- New York 1 channel coverage
- Time.com - 'Shattered: a remarkable collection photographs', James Nachtwey
- Various TV news coverage on Putfile.com
- Memories of the attack (see flashbulb memory)
- Slate's The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
- CNN September 11 memorial - List of victims, and photos.
- CNN.com - 'In-Depth Special: War Against Terror Damage report from the city of New York'
- MemoryArchive - 9/11 Memoirs
- NewYorkMetro.com - 9/11 by the Numbers: Death, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and other September 11 statistics', New York Times


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The Daily Word in Obamacare challenge, LiLo's new movie, Gangnam Christmas
Happy Cyber Monday!
Save money, but be safe.
The supreme court has revived a Christian college's challenge to Obamacare.
Lobos hold it together for a 69-54 win over Portland to take record to 6-0.
Just how bad was Lindsay Lohan's new movie?
Real ID Act has some New Mexicans scrambling to get their passports.
Woman arrested after reportedly riding a manatee for thrills.
A clown collapsed and died while blowing up balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A Black Friday shopper died after being tackled by Wal-Mart eployees.
Man parked on a median off of Academy charged with his fourth DWI.
A NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut will spend a full year aboard the ISS to study how the human body reacts and adapts to the space environment.
SpaceX founder wants to help colonize Mars.
Christmas lights Gangnam style.
60-square-mile Sandy Island shown on Google maps does not appear to actually exist.
Five members of the LANL security force fired for "improper use of a live fire shooting range."
What our friends would be like if they were cats and dogs.


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In yet another acknowledgment of the difficulties Americans have faced purchasing coverage through the HealthCare.gov website, the Obama administration on Thursday announced that it would grant a one-month extension for a transitional federal program that provides health coverage to people with serious illnesses.
In addition, the administration has put forward a handful of new requirements and recommendations for marketplace insurers to make it easier for people to get coverage that begins on Jan. 1.
As the administration tries to overcome the disastrous rollout of the HealthCare.gov website, the new proposals and requirements could add further confusion to an already complex potpourri of deadlines, mandates and recommendations surrounding the controversial health care law.
The transitional insurance program, known as the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, or PCIP, was supposed to expire on Jan. 1 when new Affordable Care Act rules take effect requiring insurers in the individual market to offer coverage to all people, regardless of their current or past health status.
The nearly 88,000 people in the pre-existing condition program – which includes stroke victims, cancer sufferers and people with major heart disease – were supposed to transition into new marketplace coverage next month.
But technical problems with the website have kept thousands of people from accessing coverage. Extending the pre-existing condition coverage by another month gives this vulnerable population more time to select and enroll in a plan.
"We don't want these folks to experience a coverage gap," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday during a telephone press briefing.
The pre-existing condition program already has cost more than $4.7 billion, but HHS officials believe there's enough cash left to extend coverage through January. Sebelius is also asking marketplace insurers to give all consumers more time to pay their first month's premium for coverage that begins on Jan. 1.
Because of technical problems with the federal marketplace website, the administration already had given consumers an extra eight days – until 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 23 – to enroll in coverage that starts on Jan. 1. That change was finalized on Thursday through new rules that give consumers until Dec. 31 to make their first month's premium payment on the new coverage.
But Sebelius is asking insurers to be even more flexible.
"We're recommending that health insurers extend this (Dec. 31 payment) deadline further," she said Thursday.
She's also asking that insurers begin coverage for consumers on Jan. 1 even if they've only made a partial payment on the first month's premium.
"We're encouraging insurers to allow consumers who paid portions of their premium, such as a down payment, to be able to start their coverage on time," the health secretary said.
Consumers who enrolled in marketplace coverage that begins on Jan. 1 are urged to contact their insurers to make sure their coverage has been properly processed.
Sebelius said the administration is also requiring insurers to post up-to-date provider directories and a list of covered medications on the state and federal marketplaces. And it is "strongly encouraging" insurers to allow their new plan members to continue filling prescriptions that were allowed under their old plans through the end of January.
Additionally, the Obama administration would like insurers to treat out-of-network care providers as network participants to assure continuity of care for new plan members with acute medical episodes. It wants out-of-network providers to be treated as "in-network" if they were originally listed as in-network during the open enrollment period, but their status has subsequently changed.
The administration is also encouraging insurers to offer "retroactive coverage" that would allow, for instance, someone who paid for coverage on Jan. 5, 2014, to have the coverage start date listed as Jan. 1. This would allow income-eligible consumers to qualify for federal subsidies to help pay for their January coverage, said Michael Hash, director of the HHS Office of Health Reform.
Aetna has already agreed to begin coverage for new members on Jan. 1, even if payments come as late as Jan. 8, said Chiquita Brooks-Lasure, deputy director for policy and regulation at HHS' Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.
The new recommendations mainly apply to insurers on the federal marketplace that serves 36 states.
The 14 states that run their own marketplaces will make their own decisions about whether to follow the new HHS recommendations, said Brooks-Lasure.
Administration officials said they have worked closely with the insurance industry on the new proposals. Hash said the flurry of new changes and accommodations are not uncommon requests for insurers when people are transitioning into new coverage.


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May 29, 2012
BOSTON — Her U.S. Senate campaign has little cash and no paid staff. Yet Massachusetts Democrat Marisa DeFranco is on the verge of qualifying for the September primary ballot if she gets enough votes at the upcoming convention in Springfield.
Consumer advocate and Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren is expected to easily win the party's endorsement to the U.S. Senate. But DeFranco, a North Shore attorney, is gathering steam. Party officials say she will likely get the 15 percent of delegate votes needed to qualify for the primary ballot.
Some Democrats worry a contested primary could force Warren to divert her resources instead of focusing on the incumbent Republican, Scott Brown. And Warren's had a tough month. She has been dogged by the debate over whether or not she improperly identified as Native American in order to further her academic career — although a recent Suffolk University/7 News poll suggests most voters don't care much about the issue.
Democratic Party chairman John Walsh said a DeFranco challenge won't do lasting damage to the Democrats in the fall general election.
"Elizabeth Warren has entered this race and has presented a somewhat historic level of support," he said. "Whether you look at the support she's garnered on the ground, or financially, or her poll numbers, she really has come forward."
As for the candidates in question, in conversations with WGBH News, both wanted to focus on the issues.
"We have been trying and trying and trying to pay attention to substance and issues in this campaign," DeFranco said. "We've been talking about a real jobs plan, how do we get people back to work. Those are things that matter to people on a day-to-day business. … They want to work hard, live the American dream and be who we are about in America."
For her part, Warren told WGBH News that she's been "meeting with people and talking about issues and really framing out what this election of 2012 is going to be about."
And Warren still had her sights primarily on incumbent Scott Brown: "The main thing is how to get out there so the voters of Massachusetts have the chance to see what the real differences are between what the Democrats are offering in this race and what the Republicans are offering."
The state Democratic convention is Saturday, June 2.
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Hunter Harvey's 7 RBIs lifts Bandys to CVAC title
Hunter Harvey's biggest contribution to the Bandys baseball team typically comes when he is pitching on the mound.
Tuesday night, it was Harvey's presence at the plate that made all the difference.
The senior second baseman drove in seven runs, helping the Trojans defeat Draughn 15-5 in five innings to claim the CVAC tournament title.
To read more of this story, pick up the Wednesday edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.